The state-run Taiwan Sugar Corp. has clarified that the company has not been stockpiling animal feed for profiteering purposes, as charged by some lawmakers.

South Korea plans to reduce the current tariff quota on imported animal feed by 2015. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said the move will reduce the amount of feed that can be imported under the lower customs duties arrangement from 860,000 tons this year to 420,000 tons.

Feedstuff production in southern China's Guangdong Province reached 10.3 million tons during the first three quarters of the year, representing an increase of 15% from the same period of last year, the Guangdong Provincial Feed Industry Association announced this week.

"Only state-of-art scientific and technological progress will allow China to feed its growing population and ensure long-lasting grain security," Chinese Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu told a group of agricultural scientists attending the 50th anniversary celebration of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences over the weekend.

AgFeed Industries, Inc. a market leader in China's premix animal nutrition industry, has opened its 380^th independently owned retail store in Hunan Province, China, to exclusively sell AgFeed's products.

Soy meal exports declined by over 30% to 170,000 tonnes last month compared with 244,000 tonnes in the year-ago period, the Indore-based Soybean Processing Association of India (SOPA) said in a release.

The Vietnamese division of Thai feed company Charoen Pokphand Foods has received an investment licence from the southern province of Ben Tre in Vietnam to open a US$68.5 million plant to produce feed for fish and shrimp farming.

China is one of the largest feed producing countries in the world, importing plenty raw materials for feed. The development of the Chinese feed industry cannot be separated from the world, and the development of the global feed industry relies on China. A healthy development of the feed industry in this country will surely make a significant contribution to the development of the global feed industry.

 

 

A recently developed hybrid grass could be a solution to Vietnam’s pressing feed shortage in the dairy industry, experts have said.

The planned listing of its shares and a brighter industry outlook have encouraged Betagro Group to invest more in various farm projects this year.